Though the system is a human one, that implies possible
but not necessary limits for there is an aspiration to universal knowledge.
The title might therefore be A System of Human Knowledge, Reason, and
Action.

Preliminary—there is overlap among humanities and
the other divisions of knowledge; however, where illuminating, redundancy is
appropriate.

Humanities and humanism—what should we know to
live, relate, and contribute to the human side of culture? Adequacy of this
rough definition of humanism and the humanities. That it suggests but does
not specify the disciplines. The methods are critical, or speculative,
comparative, and have a significant historical element. There is no central
discipline, but the humanities include ancient and modern languages,
literature, philosophy, geography, history, cultural anthropology, religion,
art, and musicology. Some details follow.

Knowledge—the disciplines and their history; that
method and content are not essentially distinct.

Philosophy—process of bridging with the unknown;
disciplines—metaphysics, logic (and epistemology), and ethics; attention to
language, concepts, and meaning (via meaning, philosophy is about the world…
via synthesis of meaning, it is about discovery); special branches—critique
of disciplines and human endeavors.

Reason—may be considered as falling under or
parallel to philosophical and other reflexive thought. “Reason arises in the
present and its foundation is not remote; is reflexive (self and cross
applying); involves value, feeling, and intuition; deploys tradition
imaginatively and critically; includes and is continuous with action; is
continuous with philosophy, especially as a way of life that emphasizes
reason with feeling.” “Reason includes critique of proof.” See reason.

Tradition—tradition is the valid content in
knowledge, reason—and action—for all cultures; its modes: primal, religious
or trans-secular, secular, and integrated.

Religion—religion as knowledge and negotiation of
the entire universe by the entire individual and groups in all their
faculties and modes of being; its nature as asserting the trans-secular;
omni-functionality; psychology of religion and religious experience; the
religions.

The real and given
universe

Introduction—the perfect metaphysics is a union of
a perfect correspondence abstract side with a pragmatic side. When the
pragmatic side is interpreted by pragmatism itself under the umbrella of the
abstract, it too is perfect (it remains imperfect and useful in its
traditional use whose value is changed but not eliminated in light of the
perfect metaphysics). Thus the pragmatic side is abstract because the
correspondence precision is irrelevant under the abstract umbrella. The
perfect metaphysics is a general and abstract science. What of the other
abstract sciences listed below? It will suffice to consider mathematics. Mathematics
begins as empirical but becomes abstract with the axiomatic method. It is
abstract as either (i) abstraction from the empirical or (2) study of
symbolic structures in themselves and not as representation of the concrete.
Is mathematics about the world? As abstraction, some fields of mathematics
are. However, with the universal method, all mathematical systems have
objects. Thus abstract vs. concrete can be seen as not about an ontological
distinction but about degree of detail omitted. This characterization applies
to the other

Metaphysics—study of Being and the given,
experience, categories, knowledge, and principles of action; possibility of
metaphysics; the abstract, the concrete, and the nature of perfect knowledge;
the fundamental principle of metaphysics; all knowledge and action fall under
the umbrella of metaphysics—including epistemology, reason, logic and ethics;
the perfect metaphysics and recognized problems of metaphysics (being;
substance, category, and cause; possible and necessary being; spacetime;
identity; cause, determinism, freedom; mind and matter), cosmology, and
agency.

Method—method is present above but a separate entry
will be useful; note the overlap with other entries in this document; method
and content are not essentially distinct, for method is an aspect of content
when knowledge and values are the objects; methods are found in and as
epistemology, argument, logic, establishment of fact, inductive and scientific
method, comparative method, transcendental method in philosophy, artistic and
engineering design, rhetoric and persuasion—general and political, the perfect
metaphysics – way of being – and ultimate realization exhibit numerous
possibilities of method: perfect knowledge by abstraction, necessity from
abstraction, complete absence of universal applicability of empirical
knowledge and generalization there-from.

The real and the artifactual—the real and its
nature; whether the real and the artifactual are essentially different and
the consequent question of whether the division of knowledge into ‘universe’
and ‘universe of created Being’ is an essential distinction.

Physical sciences—classical theories of particles
and fields, special and general theories of relativity, quantum theories of
particles and fields and their interpretations, standard theory of elementary
particles and its problems, quantum theories of gravity—quantum loop gravity
and string theory, theoretical and experimental cosmology, cosmological
context and origins of the empirical cosmos, condensed matter physics, atomic
– molecular – and optical physics, nuclear physics, chemistry and chemical
origins of life, and turbulence.

Biology—nature, variety, structural levels from
molecules to multi-cell organisms, origins and evolution of life on earth;
co-evolutionary processes and mathematical evolutionary biology; exo- and
speculative biology.

Psychology—study of psyche; primal, eastern and
western approaches; psyche: nature, functions, memory, dynamics; and growth
and integration, especially as personality; the unconscious; change and
changeability of personality; an objective science of experience; biological
psychology; behavioral and group or social psychology; psychoanalysis and
existential-humanistic theories.

Society, social science and sciences—society and
its nature. Change and origins. Groups and institutions. Culture.
Anthropology. Civilization. Economics and politics. Law.

Culture—general;
social institutions; language for expression, representation, and
communication. Institutions of knowledge and information—creation and
transmission: schools, universities, academies and research establishments;
distribution vs networking—physical and electronic.

Applied sciences
IV—science for advanced civilization and Being, e.g. (1) up to control of the
empirical cosmos and above and (2) embodiment of mind. Philosophical
supplement—philosophy of mind, organism, and Being; and the Advaita Vedanta
and related systems of Indian Philosophy.

History—the nature of history; whether “the study
of the past as it is described in written documents” is a good or adequate
conception; methods; its instrumental or practical and intrinsic or ideal
uses.

History of the world—the universe; the earth, life,
origin of homo sapiens; pre-history and anthropology;

History of ideas—general ideas; history of culture,
human endeavor, and disciplines.